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  The challenges and opportunities for the insurance sector in a climate-changing world have been well-reported for years. I first wrote on the topic in 2005, warning of the rising climate-related losses insurers were facing at the time, alongside a rising concern by investors: “20 leading U.S. investors urged 30 of the largest publicly held…

Preventive maintenance involves precautionary interventions and inspections conducted on equipment and facilities frequently to prevent failures, downtime, and workplace accidents. It includes activities like lubrication, visual inspection, cleaning, and calibration. Most facilities have established preventive maintenance schedules to guarantee the optimal performance of assets. Preserving a preventive strategy requires substantial budgets since facilities must conduct…

  Businesses depend on data analytics in most areas of their operations. Analytics are vital to all sorts of tasks, including personalizing the customer experience, entering new markets and driving innovation and product development. But one area where businesses are not fully leveraging data is in sustainability efforts. This is not ideal but also not…

Urban freight and delivery services boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers switched to online shopping when businesses were forced to close. The surge in online market activity that began in 2020 builds on a decade of steady growth related to the development of new delivery services, changing demographics and globalizing supply chains.   Rising urban freight…

  When it comes to healthcare facilities, taking initiative has long been important — after all, a preventing infections sounds a lot more positive than extinguishing an outbreak. Yet, staffing constraints and simple oversight have often led healthcare facilities to inadvertently stray away from the optimal amount of infection prevention, sometimes allowing a breakout to occur. That…

  From assessing risks to building your team, these basic steps can ready a facility to be prepared for fires, floods, power outages, earthquakes, and the unknown. Whether it’s a fire, flood, shooting, power outage, or other situation, emergencies unfortunately hit the headlines often enough that the subject of preparedness is no longer limited to…